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Title: Vietnam War Collection (Subject), 1965-1967Add to your cart.

Extent: 0.22

Date Acquired: 05/16/2006

Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This is an artificial collection created to provide access to materials that were acquired primarily because of their relationship to the Vietnam War. Rather than create a number of small collections, especially where only one document or letter constitutes the entire collection, we have chosen to bring them together as a subject oriented artificial collection.

This collection currently includes a bound volume of The Army Reporter for the year 1967, as well as samples of Vietnamese propaganda and information about Vietnam distributed to the American troops. Other materials will be added as acquired.

Collection Historical Note

Vietnam War, (1954-1975), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Called the "American War" in Vietnam (or, in full, the "War Against the Americans to Save the Nation"), the war was also part of a larger regional conflict and a manifestation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.

At the heart of the conflict was the desire of North Vietnam, which had defeated the French colonial administration of Vietnam in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist regime modeled after those of the Soviet Union and China. The South Vietnamese government, on the other hand, fought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West. U.S. military advisers, present in small numbers throughout the 1950s, were introduced on a large scale beginning in 1961, and active combat units were introduced in 1965. By 1969 more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were stationed in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union and China poured weapons, supplies, and advisers into the North, which in turn provided support, political direction, and regular combat troops for the campaign in the South. The costs and casualties of the growing war proved too much for the United States to bear, and U.S. combat units were withdrawn by 1973. In 1975 South Vietnam fell to a full-scale invasion by the North.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War

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Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

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Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Acquisition Source: Various


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Item 1: Pocket Guide to Vietnam, 1965Add to your cart.
Small booklet containing a myriad of information about Vietnam and its people. It included a lot of historical background information, cultural tradition information, and even some key phrases that a soldier operating in the area might find useful when dealing with indigenous people.
Item 2: "The People of Viet Nam Will Triumph!", 1965Add to your cart.
Propaganda magazine that contains diagrams, statistics, and pictures. The statistics are basically figures pertaining to the destruction of U.S. equipment and/or soldiers. The photos show people rallying against the United States, Vietnamese soldiers in arms against the U.S., protests from around the world condemning the war, a photo of a U.S. pilot being held at gun-point next to his downed aircraft, and numerous photos of weapons stockpiles. Also included is a letter from the Chinese government which pledges cooperation and support in driving the U.S. from the area.
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Item 1: The Army Reporter, 14 Jan 1967-30 Dec 1967Add to your cart.
This is a publication of the United States Army and was published in Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam the first part of the year and in Long Binh, Vietnam after July. It includes news about battles, soldiers, entertainers who were visiting and more.


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